I think the "rite of passage" into first grade is learning how do to the monkey bars and learning how to jump rope! Our girl Annie has been a monkeying and jumping queen.
She asked Tim if she could use her hard earned cash to buy her very own jump rope. She and Tim looked online.
They only sold her style of jump rope in packages of two. She declared that she only needed one. She didn't understand why she had to pay for shipping or tax.
So she and Tim made the deal that she would only have to pay $5 for her jump rope and Tim could use the other rope for $5, shipping, and tax. What a deal!
She hasn't stopped jumping since it came in the mail!
Jaina just used her $8 allowance (she gets her age in dollars every month) to buy a set of action figures on the internet. She, too, was dismayed when the total became $15.98 including shipping and handling! She had to go ahead and use December's money, too!
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